The Angolan capital Luanda has knocked Hong Kong off the top spot in an annual survey by Mercer Consulting that ranks the cost of living for expatriate workers in world cities.
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North Korea released US student Otto Warmbier “on humanitarian grounds”, state media said Thursday, two days after he was evacuated from Pyongyang after falling into a coma while imprisoned in a labour camp.
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South Korean Police said Wednesday they have arrested a 46 year-old Nigerian for smuggling large amounts of methamphetamines, also called meth, into the country through international mail from China.
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North Korea has released Otto Warmbier, an American serving a 15-year prison term with hard labor for alleged anti-state acts, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday in an announcement that came as former NBA player Dennis Rodman was paying a return visit to Pyongyang.
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South Korea said Tuesday a drone believed sent from North Korea had been spying on a US missile defence system before it crashed.
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The pound struggled on Monday to bounce back from last week’s sharp losses triggered by a shock British election result that has thrown the country into uncertainty.
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North Korea’s latest missile launch was a successful test of a new type of “ground-to-sea cruise rocket”, Pyongyang’s state media said Friday.
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South Korea launched on Monday a $10 billion stimulus package to create jobs and bolster welfare programmes in the country faced with slow growth and ageing population.
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South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday ordered a probe into the introduction of four Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD), missile launchers in addition to the two deployed by the U.S. military before his election.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has promised bigger “gift packages” following Pyongyang’s latest missile test, a statement that ratchets up already high tensions.
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Tottenham’s Son Heung-Min says he suffered a sleepless night after the end of the season because he felt he could have played better.
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South Korea’s former President Park Geun-hye has pleaded not guilty at her trial for corruption, the latest stage in her dramatic fall from grace.
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North Korea on Monday declared its medium-range Pukguksong-2 missile ready for deployment after a weekend test, the latest step in its quest to defy UN sanctions and develop an intercontinental rocket capable of striking US targets.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping told a South Korean envoy on Friday he was willing to put relations back on a “normal track” amid tensions over a US anti-missile system deployed on the Korean peninsula.
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Asian equities sank Thursday while the dollar held losses on fears the intensifying crisis surrounding Donald Trump could lead to his impeachment and shatter any chances of his economy-boosting agenda being implemented.
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Security researchers investigating the massive cyberattack campaign that sparked havoc in computer systems worldwide have reported signs of a possible North Korean link, with one expert warning Tuesday that there could be more to come.
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North Korea said Monday it had successfully launched a new type of ballistic missile in a test that was aimed at building capacity to launch nuclear missiles.
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President Donald Trump called for tougher sanctions against North Korea after it test-fired a ballistic missile Sunday in an apparent attempt to test the South’s new liberal president and the US.
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North Korea has carried out another ballistic missile test days after a new president took office in the South.
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A senior North Korean diplomat said Saturday Pyongyang would be willing to hold talks with the United States if the conditions are right.
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New South Korean President Moon Jae-In spoke to the leaders of China and Japan Thursday, hours after a telephone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump, officials and reports said, as he began shaping his approach to the nuclear-armed North.
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South Korea’s new liberal President Moon Jae-in was sworn in on Wednesday and vowed to immediately tackle the difficult tasks of addressing North Korea’s advancing nuclear ambitions and soothing tensions with the United States and China.
READ MORESouth Korea’s won advanced in Asian trade Wednesday as Moon Jae-In’s landslide presidential election win helped investors look past fresh warnings of a nuclear test from the North.
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Moon Jae-in, South Korea’s new president, has declared his willingness to visit the nuclear-armed North, moments after taking his oath of office.
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The dollar extended gains in Asian trade Tuesday as investors swung their attention to expectations of another US interest rate hike next month, but equities struggled under the weight of profit-taking following the previous day’s rally.
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The dollar built on the previous day’s gains on Thursday after the Federal Reserve opened the door for another US interest rate hike next month, while Seoul outperformed most other Asian markets to end at a record high.
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Lawyers for ousted South Korean President Park Geun-Hye denied all the charges against her at a hearing Tuesday before she goes on trial.
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North Korea warned Monday that it will carry out a nuclear test “at any time and at any location” set by its leadership, in the latest rhetoric to fuel jitters in the region.
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South Korea and the United States wrapped up their annual large-scale military drills on Sunday but continued a separate joint naval exercise that has triggered the threat of nuclear war from North Korea.
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South Korea and the United States wrapped up their annual large-scale military drills on Sunday, but continued a separate joint naval exercise that has triggered dire threats from nuclear-armed North Korea.
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